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FIRST GENERATION. 

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i. ISAAC CUMMINGS appears on a list of the "Common- 
ers" of Ipswich. Mass.. on the last day of the year 1641. He 
is said to have had, as early as July 1638, a planting lot in 
"Reedy Marsh," and a house lot in town. An old record is 
quoted in Essex Co. Hist. & Gen. Register, to wit: "Whereas 
Isaac Comings. .. Sold Andrew Hodges of this town all the 
said seven acres of land, more or less, lying near highway to 
Jeffries Neck, 1639, 26, (6)." The name appears on a list of 
Freemen in Watertown, 1642. In 1652, Samuel Symonds and 
his wife Martha sell him in consideration of £30, 150 acres 
"joining partly on Daniel Clark's land." This Clark was an 
early settler of Topsfield. Mr. Samuel Todd, who married 
one of the Cummings descendants, and who had given much 
attention to this research, once wrote me: "There is evidence 
that the first Isaac owned considerable land on the west side 
of Howlet's (then \\ inthrop's) brook, pretty near two miles 
N. W. of the old Cummings place on this side of the river.'' 
"( hie hundred acres lying on the westerly side and fifty acres 
on the easterly side," so says Historical Collections, Vol. V. 
of Topsfield Historical Society. 

In 1666 he was constable, and his son Isaac was his dep- 
ui\, and in a deposition be sintes his age to be 65, The same 
year he was assessed 4s. yd. to pay the town's indebtedness. 
He was deacon of the church, and in 1676, at least, moderator 
of the town meeting. No mention remains of his wife nor of 
her name. She was not living when bis will was made, May 
8, 1677. It is on file in the probate office, but unrecorded. 

Will of Isaac Sr : 

"The last will and testament of Isaac Comins Senier. I, 
being sencable of my approaching desolution, being at present 
weak in body yet perfect in my understanding, having by the 



2 CUMMIXGS MEMORiAT,. 

grace of God bene helped to provid for my future state in 
another world : doe now in ordering- of what God hath been 
pleased to bestow upon me of the blessings of this life, take 
care and order that, in the first place, my debts be duly paid, 
nextly I doe by this my last will and testament confirme to 
my son Isaac the ten acres of division land, on the south 
side of the great river, be it more or less: nextly, I do give 
unto my son, John Juet, ten pounds, part in Cattel & part in 
household goods : nextly, I doe will and bequeath to my grand- 
son, Isaac, the son of my son Isaac, one year old hefer, one 
little sow, the Indian corn which he hath planted for himself 
and the flax which he hath sown. 

Item, I doe give unto him my chest 2d in bigness with 
the lock and key: item, my history book with such books as 
are his own, viz. a bible and testament, item, I doe give him 
ten pounds to be paid at seventeen years of age in country 
pay. item, I doe give my son, John Pease, thirty pounds to be 
payd out of the stock of cattle and household goods as much 
as may be att present & the rest in two years. Item, I doe 
make my son John my sole executor and doe give unto him 
my house and lands, being forty acres, more or less, consisting 
of upland and meadow with all the privileges and emoluments 
thereof and apertainances thereunto belonging provided that 
Ibis land shall stand bound in part and in wholl for the payment 
of these legacyes and in case the said legacyes shall not be 
payd according to my will, the land shall be sold and payment 
be made out of the price thereof and the remainder shall be 
to the executor. Item, my will further is that if any of these 
my children shall through discontent att what is done for them 
in this my will, cause trouble to arise to the executor that then 
there shall be nothing pay'd to him or them, but the legacy 
or legacyes willed to them shall return to and remain in the 
hands of the executor as his proper right. My desire further 
is that Isaac Foster and Thomas Dorman would take care 
that this my will be duly performed. 

Dated this 8th day of the 3d mth 1677. 
Witness the mark of Isaac Cummings. 

John Poore Sr. 

Thomas Dorman. 

Isaac Foster. 



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CTJMMINGS MEMORIAL. 3 

Thomas Dorman and Isaac Foster 

came before Samuel Symonds, D'y 

Gov'r, Maj. Gen. Denison Esq. Mr. 

Clarke being present at the day of 

the date hereof & saw the said Isaac 

Cummings signe public this to his 

last will and testament and that he 

was of a disposing mind as attest, 

Robert Lord, cler." 

The inventory of the estate, made May 226, as appraised 

by John Whipple and John How. and testified to by John 

Cummings, June 14, places the valuation at £166 is. 6d. and 

the debts at £19 16s. 5d. 

Children : 

2. i. John, born about 1630. On the list of Freemen, 1672, his 

name precedes Isaac's. 1673, he testified in court to being 
40 years old; in 1678, 43 (47?) ; in 1679, 50. 
ii. Isaac, "horn about 1633. In 1692 he testified to being 60 

years; in 1696, 6$. 
iii. Ann, born perhaps 1629, as she was said to be 60 years of 
age at her death, June 29, 1689. She married, Oct. 8, 
1669, John Pease, his second marriage. His father, Join 
came in the ship Frances, from Ipswich, Eng. The son ob- 
tained a grant of land in 1681 in Springfield, Mass., in the 
town now known as Knfield, Conn. He was a surveyor 
and laid out the plan of that village. He died there July 8, 
1689. By his first wife, Mary, lie had five children. She 
died Jan. 5, 1668. (Pease Genealogy). By the second 
marriage there were: 

1. James, born Oct. 23, 1670, married 1693, Hannah 

Harmon win. died 1748, and had one son and 
six daughters. 

2. Isaac, born July 15. 1672, married 1691 Mindweil 

Osborn. Five sons and two daughters. 

3. Abigail, born Oct. 15, 1675, died July 9, 1689. 

iv. Elizabeth, born , married Feb. 2, 1661 — "same month and 

day of marriage of Abraham Jewett" — John Jewett, born 
about 1637. By deed, Feb. 23, following the marriage, 
Isaac Cummings conveyed to him a farm in Topsfield 
"for and in consideration of his marriage with my daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth." She died July 9, 1679. He married sec- 
ond, Elizabeth Chadwell, widow of Benj. Chadwell, and 
only child of Joseph How of Lynn. She married second, 
Oct. 23, 1716, Dea. Ezekiel Jewett. John Jewett's will was 



4 CUMMINGS MEMORIAL. 

dated 29 Nov. 1708. The nine children by Elizabeth Cum- 
mings were : 

1. Elizabeth, born Jan. 5, 1661-2, married, May 16, 

1687, John Hidden; married second, Cornelius 
Davis. 

2. Hannah, born , married Jan. 20, 1684-5, Joseph 

Plummer of Newbury. 

3. Isaac, born , married Dorcas Hovey. 

4. Sarah, born May 7, 1668 in Ipswich. 

5. Abigail, born Nov. 27, 1670, in Ipswich, died Aug. 

3, 1672. 

6. John, born Sept. 12, 1672, (Samuel in Co. records) 

married Elizabeth Rcyner; cooper by trade, of 
Rowley. 

7. Abigail, born Sept. 13. 1675, died Nov. 14, 1675 

in Ipswich. 

8. David, born April 3, 1677. 

9. Mary, born May 27, 1679, published Dec. 1709 o 

Philip Nealand of Ipswich. 

The following four are the children by the 
second marriage : 

10. Daniel, born Nov. 12, 1680, married Elisabeth 

Hopkinson. 

11. Jonathan, born Dec. 2, 1685, married Ann Hop- 

kinson. 

12. Dorcas, born Dec. 7, 1690. 

13. Rebecca, born Dec. 7, 1690. baptized Mar. 22, 1690. 













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